Playlist · CMU Database Group
SQL or Death? Seminar Series (Spring 2025)
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| 1 | Larry Ellison was Right (kinda)! TypeScript Stored Procedures for the Modern Age (James Cowling) | 1:03:16 | 2025-02-13 | |
| 2 | Towards Sanity in Query Languages (Viktor Leis + Thomas Neumann) | 1:02:32 | 2025-02-18 | |
| 3 | Apache Pinot Query Optimizer (Yash Mayya + Gonzalo Ortiz) | 1:02:59 | 2025-02-25 | |
| 4 | Google's Pipe Syntax in SQL: SQL for the 21st Century (Jeff Shute) | 59:29 | 2025-03-11 | |
| 5 | Malloy: A Modern Open Source Language for Analyzing, Transforming, and Modeling Data (Lloyd Tabb) | 50:58 | 2025-03-18 | |
| 6 | PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language (Tobias Brandt) | 58:57 | 2025-03-25 | |
| 7 | StarRocks Query Optimizer (Kaisen Kang) | 56:48 | 2025-04-04 | |
| 8 | OxQL: Oximeter Query Language from the Oxide Computer Company (Benjamin Naecker) | 1:03:36 | 2025-04-08 | |
| 9 | MariaDB’s Query Optimizer: A Multi-tool That Does Some Things Differently (Monty Widenius) | 1:04:48 | 2025-04-15 | |
| 10 | Gel: Replacing SQL and Improving on the Relational Database Model (Michael Sullivan) | 1:01:01 | 2025-04-23 |
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